Race Quotes

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.

The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.

From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

... religious insults are considered acceptable even by those who decry slurs about race, ethnicity, and gender. Religious people seem to deserve such treatment.

There is only one race ... and it is human!

Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.

Oh! where does faithful Gélert roam, The flow'r of all his race? So true, so brave; a lamb at home, A lion in the chase.

I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

I do think women are unfairly judged by their physical appearance, but I don’t think it had anything to do with being mixed-race. In my opinion, mixed-race people are the most beautiful.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

I was born in a Negro town.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

However, if you fail to prepare, you will either go through stress to win your race or you may quit when the battle becomes tougher than you ever imagined.

Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference.

There is nothing like race, is there?

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Segregation shaped me education liberated me.

...all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...

He has only heard what I felt.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?

The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves.

There is only one possible solution to the race problem and that is a vital personal experience with Jesus Christ on the part of [all] races.

God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ. The remedy is to be born again.

Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever his cultural or ethnic background, he needs the Gospel of Christ.

The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one another.

No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the human race.

The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin—sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race.

To be or not to be that is the question.

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. (p. 81)

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy